Coming up on today's show:
- This week, Nancy Pelosi announced she was stepping down from Democratic leadership just after Republicans clinched control of the House. Steve Israel, former member of Congress, writer and director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell University, and Molly Ball, national political correspondent for TIME and the author of Pelosi (Henry Holt and Co., 2020), talk about these big changes to the balance of power in Washington, D.C.
- A Gothamist investigation details the tenure of a federal monitor tasked with overseeing New York City jails. The city jail system is more dangerous today than it was before this monitor federal monitor was installed—despite the $18 million in NYC taxpayer money that has funded the office. Matt Katz, WNYC Public Safety correspondent, discusses his reporting.
- Fires caused by e-bike batteries are becoming all too common in the city. Ross Barkan, a contributor to New York Magazine and a columnist for Crain's, and Alissa Walker, senior reporter at Curbed, talk about what lawmakers need to do to keep e-bike riders - many of whom are low-income delivery workers - safe.
- Ron Knox, senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, discusses the outcry over Ticketmaster following the Taylor Swift tour presale debacle on Tuesday.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
